Al Hoceima

Al Hoceima
Moroccan city

Al Hoceima (Amazigh ⵍⵃⵓⵙⵉⵎⴰ) is a Moroccan coastal city, surrounded by mountainous terrain, located in the middle of the Moroccan Mediterranean coastline. It is one of the most important metropolitan areas and is the administrative capital of the province of Al Hoceima. The urban population of Al Hoceima was 56,716 people in the 2004 census, and 399,654 people counting the surrounding emerging urban centers. The city has experienced rapid urban growth and expansion since the beginning of the 21st century, and is gradually becoming a metropolis that extends earthly to other urban points such as the sons of Bouyach and Imzouren.
Despite being a metropolis founded in the twentieth century, Al Hoceima has a great historical symbolism in rural and Moroccan history, where it was one of the most crucial military centers in the development of rural warfare [?], And one of its metropolises was Agadir, the capital of the Rif (1921-1926) that followed the victory Rural resistance, led by Mohammed bin Abdul Karim al-Khattabi on the Spanish colonizer. During its modern history, the city has suffered, like the rest of northern Morocco, from the voluntary economic and social marginalization of the Moroccan state, making it a permanent political protest (the Rif uprising 1958-1959 and the 1984 uprising). Since the beginning of the third millennium, especially after the 2004 earthquake, the city has known a series of economic and social reparations through a range of economic projects and infrastructure development [6].
The city is known locally as Pia, after the Spanish colonial city Pia San Jorge. The majority of the city's inhabitants speak Tamazight, in the Tarifit dialect. The main economic activities of the city are fishing, in which the port of the city ranks fifth nationally, in terms of fish production, in addition to tourism (28 334 tourists in 2013) and an emerging industrial sector, mainly located in the industrial zone of  ismail Bahi [6]

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